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It fits the Webster definition: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gun https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gun If I ask you to bring me a gun, a
by catapart 2y ago
It fits the Webster definition: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gun https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gun
If I ask you to bring me a gun, and there is a water gun right next to you and you argue that "I might have meant water pistol" (colloquially: refusing to assess the water gun as a "gun"), I would assume you were ignorant, dishonest, or both.
- xigoi 2y agoA water gun is a gun in the same way that a gummy bear is a bear.
- catapart 2y agoRight on. And if someone made a "bear" emoji as an image of a gummy bear, I wouldn't accuse them of being out of spec. I would just find it personally misleading. Things that might be appropriate to say with a bear emoji might not be appropriate to say with a gummy bear emoji. That could be confusing, and it could be frustrating. But - as the standard emoji convention is often just "use whatever is closest" (see: eggplant/peach) - I don't think there would be any real, practical problem by people using gummy bears as their "bears". So it's perfectly in spec and could easily be a practical solution. The same is true of the gun emoji. Hard for me to picture a scenario where I would need to communicate "real gun" but not want to say the words "real gun". And given the ubiquitous (until now) change in the icon, I have empirical evidence that it was an entirely practically appropriate solution. And, again, it was no further out of spec than an M1911.